Emmanuel Stefanakis

Associate Professor, Dept. Geography, Harokopio University of Athens.


Selected Publications...



Books:

Stefanakis, E., 2009. Web Mapping and Web Mapping Services. New Technologies Publ., pp. 220. [In Greek]

Stefanakis, E., Peterson, M.P., Armenakis, C., Delis, V., (Eds), 2006. Geographic Hypermedia: Concepts and Systems, Springer.

Stefanakis, E., 2003. Geographic Databases and Geographic Information Systems. Papasotiriou Publ.. pp. 419. [ In Greek] 


Proceeding Volumes (as Editor)

Stefanakis, E., and Peterson, M.P., (Eds), 2005, Geographic Hypermedia. Denver, CO, April 4-5, 2005.

Zimányi, E., and Stefanakis, E., (Eds), 2005, Semantic-based Geographical Information Systems (SeBGIS'05). In On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2005: OTM Workshops, Springer, LNCS 3762.


Papers - Book Chapters:

Geographic Data Mining... 

Stefanakis, E., 2008. DBSCAN-MO: Density-based Clustering among Moving Obstacles. Full Paper. 11th Agile Conference, Girona, May 5-8, 2008. To be published in Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography (Springer).

Stefanakis, E., 2007. NET-DBSCAN: Clustering the nodes of a dynamic linear network. International Journal of Geographical Information Science.Taylor & Francis. Volume 21 Issue 4, 427-442.

Stefanakis, E., 2005. Clustering dynamic map objects based on density measures. In Proceedings of the 22nd International Cartographic Conference, A Coruna, Spain, July 2005.

 

Web Mapping - Web GIS... 

Stefanakis, E., 2008. A Journey to the Ancient Greek Myths: An Enhanced Educational Framework to Story-Telling with Geo-Visualization Capabilities. In the Proc. of the First International Workshop on Story-Telling and Educational Games (STEG'08), Maastricht, Sept. 16th, 2008.

Stefanakis, E., and Prastacos, P. 2008. Development of an Open Source Based Spatial Data Infrastructure. AppliedGIS Journal, Vol 4(4).

Stefanakis, E., and Kritikos, G., 2008. The Battleship G. Averof - Promotion and Enrichment of the Museum Archives. In the Proceedings of the XXI Congress of the ISPRS, Commission IV/1, Beijing, China, July 2008.

Stefanakis, E., and Prastacos, P. 2008. Development of a Coastal SDI using GeoFOSS. In the Proceedings of the 11th Agile Conference, Girona, May 5-8, 2008.

Stefanakis, E., and Prastacos, P. 2008. Visualizing and Analyzing the Geospatial Content of an Open Source Based Spatial Data Infrastructure. Submitted for publication.

Stefanakis, E., and Patroumpas, K., 2008. Google Earth and XML: Advanced Visualization and Publishing of Geographic Information. In Peterson, M.P. (ed) International Perspectives on Maps and the Internet. Springer, In Press.

Stefanakis, E. and Prastacos, P., 2007. Development of Metadata for Coastal Zones. 8th Panhellenic Geographic Conference, Athens, October 2007 [in greek].

Stefanakis, E., and Prastacos, P., 2007. Semantic-Based Spatial Information Infrastructures: Integrating Data and Services into a Single Collection. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Cartographic Conference, Moscow, Russia, August 2007.

Stefanakis, E., 2007. Google Earth. In Kemp, K., (ed), 2006, Encyclopedia of Geographic Information Science. SAGE Publications. In Press.

Stefanakis, E., 2006. Building university campus maps on Google Earth. In the Proceedings of the 4rd International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2006), ifgi-Prints, Muenster, Germany, Sept. 20-23, 2004.

 

Wayfinding Algorithms...

Stefanakis, Ε., 2006. Scheduling trajectories on a planar surface with moving obstacles. Informatica, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 95-110.

Stefanakis, E., 2004. Navigating among moving obstacles. In the Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2004), Adelphi, MD, Oct. 20-23, 2004.

Stefanakis, E., and Kavouras, M., 2002. Navigating in Space Under Constraints. International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics (IJPAM), Vol. 1(1), pp. 71-93. Academic Publications.

Stefanakis, E., and Kavouras, M., 1995, On the determination of the optimum path in space. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 988 (2nd International Conference on Spatial Information Theory - COSIT '95), Semmering, Austria. Spinger. pp. 241-257.

Kavouras, M., and Stefanakis, E., 1995, Determination of the optimum path on the earth's surface. In Proceedings of the 17th International Cartographic Conference, Barcelona, Spain, pp. 2761-2765.

 

Geographic Hypermedia... 

Stefanakis, E., and Peterson, M.P., 2006. Geographic hypermedia. In Stefanakis, E., Peterson, M.P., Armenakis, C., Delis, V., (Eds), 2006, Geographic Hypermedia: Concepts and Systems. Springer, pp. 1-21.

Stefanakis, E., and Stefanakis, K., 2003. Compiling a Recreational Map: A Case Study. In Proceedings of the 21st International Cartographic Conference, Durban, South Africa, August 2003.

Stefanakis, E., 2001. Augmented Reality-Based Cultural Heritage On-Site Guide (Archeoguide Project). Presented in the Euresco Conference: Socio-Economic Research and Geographic Information Systems - The Digital City. Granada, Spain, June 2001.

 

Semi-structured Modeling...

Stefanakis, E., 2003. Modeling the History of Semi-Structured Geographic Entities. International Journal of Geographical Information Science. Vol. 17, No. 6, pp. 517-546..Taylor & Francis.

Stefanakis, E., 2003. Representation of Generalized Map Series Using Semi-Structured Data Models. Cartography and Geographic Information Science (journal). Vol. 30. No. 1, pp. 51-68. American Congress on Surveying and Mapping.

Stefanakis, E., 2002. Representation of Map Objects with Semi-structured Data Models. In Richardson, D., and van Oosterom, P. (Eds.) Advances in Spatial Data Handling (10th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling - SDH2002), Ottawa, Canada, Springer, pp. 547-562.

Stefanakis, E., 2002. Modeling Cadastral Data Using Semi-structured Data Models. In Proceedings of the 5th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, Mallorca, Spain, April 2002.

 

Geographic Data Modeling and Handling...

Stefanakis, E., and Sellis, T., 2001, Towards the design of a DBMS repository for temporal GIS. In Frank, A.U., Raper, J., and  Cheylan, J.-P. (Eds.) Life & Motion of Socio-economic Units (ESF-GISDATA Series Book), Taylor & Francis, pp. 167-184.

Stefanakis, E., and Ratsiatou, I., 2001, Spatio-temporal multicriteria decision making under uncertainty. In Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Robust and Fuzzy Techniques in Geodesy and GIS, Zurich, Switzerland, March 2001.

Stefanakis, E., 2001, A unified framework for fuzzy spatio-temporal representation and reasoning. In Proceedings of the 20th International Cartographic Conference, pp. 2678-2687. Beijing, China, August 2001.

Stefanakis, E., Vazirgiannis, M., and Voisard, A., 2000. Decision support under uncertainty on spatial contexts: The geological map creation case. [Extended Abstract] In the Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2000), Savannah, Georgia, Oct. 28-31, 2000.

Stefanakis, E., Vazirgiannis, M., and Sellis, T., 1999, Incorporating fuzzy set methodologies in a DBMS repository for the application domain of GIS. International Journal of Geographical Information Science. Vol. 13, No. 7, pp. 657-675. Taylor & Francis.

Stefanakis, E., and Sellis, T., 1999, Enhancing a database management system for GIS with fuzzy set methodologies. In Proceedings of the 19th International Cartographic Conference, Ottawa, Canada, August 1999, pp. 121-130.

Stefanakis, E.,  and Sellis, T., 1998, Enhancing operations with spatial access methods in a database management system for GIS. Cartography and Geographic Information Systems, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 16-32.

Stefanakis, E., and Sellis, T., 1997, Towards the design of a DBMS repository for the application domain of GIS: requirements of users and applications. In Proceedings of the 18th International Cartographic Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, pp. 2030-2037.

Stefanakis, E., and Sellis, T., 1996, A DBMS repository for the application domain of Geographic Information Systems. In Kraak, M.J., and Molenaar, M. (Eds.), Advances in GIS Research II (7th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling), Delft, The Netherlands, Taylor & Francis, pp. 119-130.

Stefanakis, E., Vazirgiannis, M., and Sellis, T., 1996, Incorporating fuzzy logic methodologies into GIS operations. In Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Geographic Information Systems in Urban, Regional, and Environmental Planning, Samos, Greece, pp. 61-68. Also in Proceedings of the XVIII ISPRS Congress, Vienna, Austria.

 

Geographic Decision Support Systems...

Lonnqvist, M., and Stefanakis, E., 2007. Archaeology and GIS: Ancient human traces in automated space. In Madden, M. (Ed), 2007, ASPRS Manual of Geographic Information Systems, ASPRS Press. In Press.

Stefanakis, E., and Sellis, T., 2003. Interaction Issues and Decision Support in Intelligent GIS. Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems. UNESCO. EOLSS Publishers Co Ltd. 

Sperelaki, M., Davelas, G, Stefanakis, E., Dedoussis, G. et al., 2003. Examining the Variations of Fetal Haemoglobin (HbF) in Normal  Adults and Thalassaemia Heterozygotes Using GIS. Euresco Conference: Geographic Information for Health and Environment, Spa, Belgium, May 2003.

Stefanakis, E., 2000, The synergy of GIS with other systems. In Proceedings of the XIX Congress of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 2000.

Lymberopoulos, N., Papadopoulos, C., Stefanakis, E., Pantalos, N., and Lockwood, F., 1996, A GIS-based forest fire management information system. EARSel Journal - Advances in Remote Sensing. Special Issue: Remote sensing and GIS applications for forest fire management, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 68-75.

 

Spatial Data Structures...

Theodoridis, Y., Stefanakis, E., and Sellis, T., 2000, Efficient Cost Models for Spatial Queries Using R-trees. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE CS Press. Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 19-32.

Theodoridis, Y., Stefanakis, E., and Sellis, T., 1998, Cost models for join queries in spatial databases. In Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE '98), Orlando, Florida, pp. 476-483. IEEE CS Press.

Theodoridis, Y., Papadias, D., Stefanakis, E., and Sellis, T., 1998, Direction relations and two-dimensional range queries: optimization techniques. Data and Knowledge Engineering, Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 313-336.

Stefanakis, E., Theodoridis, Y., Sellis, T., and Lee, Y.C., 1997, Point representation of spatial objects and query window extension: a new technique for spatial access methods. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, Vol. 11, No. 6, pp. 529-554. Taylor & Francis.

Papadias, D., Theodoridis, Y., and Stefanakis, E., 1997, Multi-dimensional range query processing with spatial relations. Geographical Systems, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 343-365.

Lee, Y.C., Agi, B., and Stefanakis, E., 1997, An approach to multi-dimensional range search. In Proceedings of 1st International Workshop on Dynamic and Multi-Dimensional GIS. Eds. Y.C. Lee, Z.L.Li, Hong Kong, 25-26th August 1997, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, pp. 128-142.

Theodoridis, Y., Papadias, D., and Stefanakis, E., 1996, Supporting direction relations in spatial database systems. In Kraak, M.J., and Molenaar, M. (Eds.), Advances in GIS Research II (7th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling), Delft, The Netherlands, Taylor & Francis, pp. 739-752.

Lee, Y.C., and Stefanakis, E., 1994, A new approach to range searching based on the point representation of spatial objects. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Geographic Information Systems, Ottawa, Canada, pp.1195-1208.


Last updated: 21/12/2009